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Even if they can be found, faithful Iraqi recruits are proving difficult to retain. Iraqi commanders working alongside the American forces walk a dangerous line, trying to convince their neighbors they are patriots, not traitors. Painted on a concrete blast wall outside Marine headquarters at Camp Fallujah is a portrait of Lieut. Colonel Suleiman Hamad al-Marawi, a former commander of the Fallujah-based 506th Battalion of the U.S.-backed Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC). Last month al-Marawi was kidnapped with another Iraqi lieutenant colonel when insurgents overran two Iraqi army positions. Six days later, his body was found...
...life were fair, John "Boom-Boom" Howard and Peter "Put-It-on-Credit" Costello would one day get a monument honoring their services to consumerism, wealth accumulation and fat profits. Perhaps a statue at every shopping mall or a team portrait in real-estate agencies would do the trick. Or maybe the banks could issue platinum credit cards celebrating the Liberal Prime Minister and Treasurer's contribution to the Swipe-It culture. They've had some luck, no doubt, but Howard and Costello have taken taxing and spending to audacious new levels, pushed away the poor's support struts...
Anyone who's seen Bill Clinton in the past few months--speaking at the White House ceremony when his portrait was unveiled in May, delivering a ringing speech in support of John Kerry at the Democratic National Convention in July, signing copies of his book all over the world this summer--couldn't help noticing that he was full of energy and looking mighty svelte. The ex-President was thin--not just for the famously chubby Clinton--but thin by anyone's standard. How did he do it? He had been on the South Beach diet, he told friends...
...know every inch of a picture by heart and it can still be a mystery. That is the secret of the Mona Lisa, a portrait so enigmatic that even endless duplication can?t make you sick of it. It?s even truer of Georges Seurat?s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884, a canvas that everyone knows but no one entirely possesses...
...start collecting stories. For the next several years--starting out in her home state of Colorado--she toted a laundry basket of old aprons everywhere she went. She invited strangers to touch them and talk to her. Like Proust's madeleine, the aprons prompted potent memories. After Geisel met portrait photographer Kristina Loggia, a project evolved. "The Apron Chronicles" is now an exhibit traveling throughout the country (to find out where, go to apronchronicles.com) It combines Geisel's collected testimonies and Loggia's vivid portraiture to create a poetry of the familiar. With stories that cut across classes and ethnic...